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As of the 1.3.0 prerelease, cel:// URLs work in both Windows and KDE versions of Celestia. I thought that it might be neat to add new forum profile field for putting a cel:// URL for a favorite Celestia location. It would show up beneath your name, to the left of your forum posts. Anyone Celestia user who clicked on the link would immediately be transported to the location.

As an example, here's a nice view of the
Puget Sound area.

--Chris

I'd give it 4 out of 5: A neat idea to implement if it isn't too much work.
Unfortunately, you didn't include that option

One problem is when the "favorite view" requires add-ons that aren't present on the local system.

Sounds like a neat idea!

Just for the slow learner in the back of the class, was aything supposed to happen when I clicked on the Puget Sound link?

Rick,

Once you've installed http://63.224.48.65/celestia/files/celestia-win32-1.3.0pre2.exe, when you click on the Puget Sound link, Celestia will immeidately take you there.

However, note that this is a "prerelease". That means it has bugs. The most serious one that I'm aware of is that it may cause a system lock-up if you have an ATI Rage card. If you install it, be sure to tell the installer to put it in a new and different folder so that you can still use the older version.

I think it would be an excellent idea .

Love,
7 of 9

Well I originally voted for "I have no idear what you'r talking about"
But now I do, so scratch that.

I think this is a wondefull idea, espesially for people like Calculas
when he post up pictures of phenomina, now he can show on our own machines.

I love the idea chris...Thing is unless peeps have my addons installed they wont see most of my cel favorites...

Also how are cel url captured in Celestia? Is it similar to favorites?

Darkmiss wrote:Well I originally voted for "I have no idear what you'r talking about"
But now I do, so scratch that.

I think this is a wondefull idea, espesially for people like Calculas
when he post up pictures of phenomina, now he can show on our own machines.

cel:// URLs are a great addition and it seems more usefull than favorites. It keeps the render and the navigation options. I'll definitely use them for my pictures of celestial phenomena.
However I don't think it worths the time to add such a field in the forum's profile.

chris wrote:As of the 1.3.0 prerelease, cel:// URLs work in both Windows and KDE versions of Celestia. I thought that it might be neat to add new forum profile field for putting a cel:// URL for a favorite Celestia location. It would show up beneath your name, to the left of your forum posts. Anyone Celestia user who clicked on the link would immediately be transported to the location.

As an example, here's a nice view of the
Puget Sound area.

--Chris

Of course, it's great, even more so with KDE3 which nobody here seems to be able to appreciate;-). What a world!

In fact, I have been at that nice place above (being pretty far away from home) ...

Bye Fridger

Chris, the idea is good but i see many problems. I think most people who are more familiar with celestia made his own modifications and the result is no installation is equal with a other.

If i could choose between this or some other development topics ...

for example:
- transparency map (for hires clouds and other things),
- muliple texture names (e.g. texture "earth2k.png", "earth4k.dds", "earth_bmp_16k.dds"; )
- improved 3DS model support
- some bugs ( CTRL+A double key assignment, goto distance bug from a small to a large object, ...)

... i would prefer the second .

Jens

p.s. How about an opinion poll: what is most wanted for celestia ?